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KITCHEN'S FOOR & BED WETTIN' BAD BOYS TEST PRESSINGS ARRIVED AND SOUND GREAT. HAND STAMPING THE LABELS OF THE STRAIGHT ARROWS REPRESS. CIRCLE PIT 7" REPRESS ORDER SEND (STILL 50-ish OF THE FIRST PRESSING AVAILABLE). ROYAL HEADACHE TEST PRESS HOPEFULLY OVER THE PACIFIC OCEAN. LLOYD HAS DUBBED FOR 100 HOURS. DEAF FARMERS... LP MASTER SENT. Just another day at the R.I.P Society office (pictured above).

P.S....

RIP001: CIRCLE PIT 7" IN BYRON COLEYS SIZE MATTERS TOP 10 OF 2009.
http://thewire.co.uk/articles/3507/

COMING EARLY 2010

CLICK ON THE PICTURE TO SEE IF PROPERLY.

COMING SOON
RIP003: Lloyd Honeybrook - Saxual Abstinence Cassette

Heavy, tonal feedback experiments in not playing the saxophone. The standard edition is a c60 then there's the die-hard 2xc60 edition. Lloyd will take a heap on these on his tour of Japan with Robbie Avanenaim in a couple of months. People in Melbourne should contact him direct for copies, hopefully I'll have soon (one-for-one dubbing sucks).

RIP006: Royal Headache 7"

Sorry this one's taking so long but it's worth the wait. Four tracks a heap of you are probably already familiar with: Splash, Surprise, Eloise & Girls. Embraced by young punk sceptical of all things garage as well as those annoying old dudes that spend all their money of rare Easybeats records. Royal Headache's music will warm the heart of even the crustiest old scrooge.

RIP007: Kitchen's Floor - Regrets 7"

Three new tracks: Orbit, Regrets & Still Night. Here's a video for Regrets and here's a video for Orbit. The third track Still Night is a real winner too, one of the most down of their downer hits. This EP won't disappoints those into their album "Loneliness Is A Dirty Mattress" from last year. A bit of a different sound, more raw and tattered which suits the hopeless atmosphere of these songs.

RIP008: Bed Wettin' Bad Boys - Worst Band In Sydney / Best Band In Sydney 7"

Think indie rock before indie rock meant you were a sweater wearing nerd (aka Replacements, Meat Puppets) with a heavy dose of suburban punk, overdriven guitars and a rowdy Australia quality about it. Not the most hip or liked band around probably because they off get too drunk and talk too much shit in between songs. Anyway this 7" delivers and shows that they can actually write good tunes.

RIP009: Dead Farmers - Go Home LP

Long awaited debut LP after being the first release on Aarght Records (Eddy Current, UV Race, Super Wild Horses etc) a couple of years ago. I saw their first or second show three and a half years ago and haven't missed many since. At the time it seemed everything around me was no-wavey or post-something and these three young men playing powerful, honest-to-god rock music felt like the most ambitious, genuine thing around. Somewhere between your garage punk and heavy pyschedelic rock (Groundhogs, Blue Cheer, Mainliner etc). These dudes feel like my local Stooges/Creedence/Minutemen.

RIP010: Straight Arrows - Can't Count 7" Repress

A split release with Juvenile Records aka Juvenile Society Records. A repress of 200 copies, I'll make up some covers for RIP's 100 copies and have them ready in about a fortnight. If you want one now more info here. Listen to the Straight Arrows here. Definitely a highlights of Australian punk/garage over the last few years.

RIP011: Languid Mosque Zine

A Royal Headache / Bed Wettin' Bad Boy tour diary. Pretty much writing about the tour and some topics that came up in the car/at the shows etc. Although nobody submitted any stories about punk rock under Premier Joh Beljelke-Petersen's I'll still look into it. Probably some crude drawings/collages and contributions from other band members.

NOTE: I'll be offering some type of package deal for the Royal Headache, Kitchen's Floor & Bed Wettin' Bad Boys 7" that'll include Languid Mosque Zine. Maybe some special covers etc. More details once I get the text pressings back!

Shops/distros or anyone who waits more information (radio, media etc) get in touch at r.i.p.societyrecords@gmail.com .

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Promise I'll get better at updating this thing soon..... Royal Headache and Kitchen's Floor 7"s will be going to the pressing plant next week. Lloyd Honeybrook - Saxual Abstinence Cassette out soon, sorry about the f-around. Bought a cassette duper that doesn't work well enough.

KITCHEN'S FLOOR - Loneliness Is A Dirty Matress CD OUT NOW...

Yep, Australaian can buy it from Repressed Records in Sydney, Missing Link in Melbourne, Rocking Horse in Brisbane, Vox Cyclops in Newcastle and pretty soon Big Star in Adelaide. Everyone loves this album cause it's great, they blew everyone's mind in Sydney a couple of weekends ago.

JAKEB SMITH AT RAVE MAGAZINE IN BRISBANE SAID THIS:
"Left creates a cannily concise pop song through the rhythmic delivery of its only two lines "I was happy / Left me here", while the band’s rumble veers almost imperceptibly beneath. With a fucking tambourine solo for the middle eight, this is the best minimalist pop song I’ve heard in ages. The record is full of such gems, drowned in detuned guitar and Kennedy’s weary yowl, which rears-up in inefficient spasms of energy."

Shaun Prescott at Mess&Noise had many nice things to say as did a Joe Luna at Foxy Digitalis....
Check out the videos for Left and Orbit....

THIS WEEK IN SYDNEY...

WEDNESDAY.... Apparently Naked On The Vague's set is going to be one long cover???

FRIDAY, SATURDAY, SUNDAY.....

OI EVERYONE THREE FRIGGIN' GREAT INTERSTATE BANDS ARE IN TOWN OVER THE WEEKEND OF THE 14TH TO 16TH OF AUGUST. GO SEE THEM. COULDN'T BE STUFFED MAKING FOUR DIFFERENT FLIERS / EVENTS ETC SO THESE SHOWS HAVE BECOME "THE WILD WEEKEND".

BLANK REALM (Bris). Saw them a couple of weeks ago in Brisbane and by-george it was bloody good. Velvet Underground/early Sonic Youth/Parson Sound drone rock. Add some hard boogie bass a la Chrome or Hawkwind, heavy synth and some creepy egyptian/surf/death rock Rikk Agnew style guitar lines and you've got a top band. Not one paisley shirt / JAMC looking sunglasses-at-night fag in the band. Genuine people, genuine music!

KITCHEN'S FLOOR (Bris). Shit a brick these guys can write some tunes! Guitarist Matt Kennedy was also the man behind the also excellent band Look!Pond. No frills lo-fi guitar, bass and drums pop songs. Great mix of potential pop hits, weirdo eastern-y sounding guitar bits and big-small-town teen awkwardness. Sounds exactly like Brisbane. Would probably fit in with your modern day Siltbreeze stuff or Urinals style crud-rock pretty nicely... or maybe like Nirvana or something. Launching his debut album "Loneliness Is A Dirty Matress".

WASTED TRUTH (Melb). If you've got a massive boner for the darker, weirder, heavier side of US hardcore and the forgotten outsider stuff that happened between hardcore and "the year that punk broke" Wasted Truth are for you. A real Flipper, No Trend, Drunks With Guns, Flux of Pink Indians, The Gordons, Germs cult kind of vibe going on. Sean William Bailey (aka Lakes) on the bass and Harriet Kate Morgan on the drums (the most intense drummer).

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FRIDAY AUGUST 14.FREE INSTORE @ REPRESSED RECORDS.
356 KING ST, NEWTOWN. 6PM
WASTED TRUTH (Melb, read above for selling points)
PEE WEE (Members of Dead Farmers & Straight Arrows. Think "Born Innocent" era Redd Kross, 1st Ramones, poppier Germs stuff etc)
THE MENTALLY UNSTABLE (Suburban young dudes doing a great hardcore-punk-rock-n-roll thing. Proto punk / Stooges meets first wave hardcore. Sick!)

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SATURDAY 15 (AFTERNOON).
THE GLENGARRY HOTEL
182 Abercrombie Street, Redfern.FREE. 3.30pm START.
RIP SOCIETY SHOWCASE....
KITCHEN’S FLOOR
BED WETTIN’ BAD BOYS
ROYAL HEADACHE
$10 (ALICE) COOPERS JUGS AND COCKTAIL SPECIALS.
FREE ENTRY BUT BUY A CD OR TAPE AS THIS STEAM TRAIN AIN’T GOT COAL TO BURN.
KITCHEN’S FLOOR IS LAUNCHING THEIR ALBUM ‘LONELINESS IS A DIRTY MATRESS’.BED WETTIN’ BAD BOYS ARE LAUNCHING ‘KISS IT’, THE KISS COVERS CASSETTE. THEY WILL PLAY NOTHING BUT KISS COVERS ON THIS DAY.

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SATURDAY 15
NAKED ON THE VAGUE
ALPS OF NSW (ALBUM LAUNCH!))
BLANK REALM (Brisbane)
WASTED TRUTH (Melbourne)
GHOSTS OF TELEVISIONKITCHEN'S FLOOR (Brisbane)
THE ASTRAL KALEIDOSCOPE
At MGTVLE Warehouse.
MARRICKVILLE. Starts 6ish
$10

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SUNDAY 16
LOCKSMITH GALLERY.
6 BOTANY RD, ALEXANDRIA
BLANK REALM (Read top for selling points)
KITCHEN’S FLOOR (Make it a hat trick, go to all three)
FAMILY JEWELS (Analog synthesizer stuff)
$5

Swine Mountain

I've been putting off starting this blog for months. I started thinking about / writing the first couple of entries when under house arrest from swine flu but wasn't until I was that I saw the labels first print ad (with this url listed) that I realised I should get shit happening....

R.I.P Society is a record label from Sydney, Australia. Funded by saving from Centrelink Newstart / Youth Allowance payments and part time record store work. Specialising in Australian music of the non Fitzroy cafe, late 20's dinner party, chin-scratchin'-black-rimmed -glasses-gimme-arts-funding variety. Black Flag are probably the best band ever.

Issue two of Sydney based music journal Mountain Fold is out now. Articles on Sean Bailey (aka Lakes), Philip Brophey, Circle Pit, The Dead C, Wet Hair & Woods. Circle Pit and Lakes were the first two R.I.P Society Records releases so no doubt I'm going to tell you it's great (it actually is though). Pick it up for free from Repressed Records in Sydney or Missing Link in Melbourne. It's free and pretty. I picked up a whole heap of zines this week that should be available from these two stores. Look out for SSEX (interviews with Chrome Dome & NOTV), Distort, Pederast Prophet, Niche Home vol. 1 & 2 and Human Being Lawnmower. Haven't got a copy yet but looking forward to Negative Guest List issue 2 (Royal Headache & Bed Wettin' Bad Boys are on the CD comp along with pre-Pink Reason band Hate Fuck, the Seizures, Puerto Rico Flowers etc) and Stained Sheets.